How to Create a Mixed Media Scarecrow Painting on Sheet Music!

Hey Mixed media Society Member! 

I hope you’re having a fab week :) I can’t wait to share a NEW FALL mixed media art project with you! I decided it was time to put our skin tone paintings on hold for a bit, so we could truly embrace the season. 

There’s something so fall about a scarecrow isn’t there?
I thought you'd just love creating this watercolor scarecrow painting with me! 

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Isn't he adorable?! 

I painted him on top of sheet music to mix things up a little. I actually have a book of sheet music that I picked up at my local thrift shop specifically to art in. I’ve upcycled this into an altered book art journal. If you don’t have something like this - don’t worry about it. You can take a field trip yourself to grab your own used book of sheet music, or you can skip it entirely and just work on watercolor paper. 

Because sheet music isn’t printed on watercolor paper, and we’ll be using watersoluble art supplies on top, we need to prep our paper with watercolor ground. If you’re not sure how to use watercolor ground - I go over this in-depth in our lesson.

I used my Winsor & Newton watercolor markers to create my scarecrow. You could also use Tombows, straight watercolor, or watercolor pencils. It’s totally up to you. 

​Here’s everything else I used…

Supplies

Watercolor Ground by Daniel Smith https://amzn.to/3uciOUn

Absorbent Ground by Golden https://amzn.to/3SvbflO

3 Watercolor pencils in shades of Orange/Brown (mine by Stabilo)

The following watercolor markers by Winsor-Newton https://amzn.to/475bEAa:
Gamboge
Yellow Ochre
Cadmium Orange Hue
Burnt Sienna
Burnt Red
Burnt Umber
Alizarin Crimson Hue

The following watercolor markers by Faber-Castell https://amzn.to/473nzy7:
Dark Chrome Yellow
Green Gold (does NOT look at all green, looks like Yellow Ochre)
Permanent Green Olive

The following watercolor markers by Uni-Posca https://amzn.to/3sgqTqP:
Peach
Brown
White
Black

Watercolor Brush No. 1 by Polina Bright
Polina Bright Watercolor Brushes https://www.polinabright.com/karencampbell and use coupon code KARENCAMPBELL to save 10% off your order

​👉Ready to Make Your Own Scarecrow? Let’s do it!

​Want More Fall Projects?

These are also in the Holiday Classroom!

​The fall fox project below uses old phone book pages collaged into the background!

​Love Working on Sheet Music?

Me tooooooo! Now that you know how to work on TOP of sheet music, you can create all kinds of projects in your own little altered book art journal. 

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Using scraps of sheet music, pieces of old book pages (bonus if they’re in another language or cool, old-timey font!!), dictionary pages, or even old phone book pages as collage material! It’s SO fun!! 

CLICK ON the project below that interests you most to get transported straight to the lesson over at Awesome Art School! 

Prefer to Work on a Recent Lesson
​You Haven't Had Time For Yet?

Great idea! Tons of fun watercolor portraits were recently released in the Skin Tones Classroom and are just waiting for you to enjoy them! Just after the holidays, these lessons will be wrapped up with our final two dark skin tone paintings.

​What Else is Comin' Up? 

👉Stay Tuned for details on our Happy Hour LIVE next Friday, 11/17.
It’s gonna be SO much fun!! We’re going to create a canvas  you can hang up before Thanksgiving that says GATHER! I can’t wait!

You can use any canvas you’d like, but I thought a giant oval would be fun! Here’s what I’ll be using, in case you’d like to get it ordered ahead of time :) 

That’s it for now! I hope you have a wonderful week, and I can’t wait to see ya on Friday!